OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Operationalising Moral Status: Approaching a Pragmatic Spectrum	80
Applying Rawls’ Theory of Public Reason to Controversies over Parental Surrogacy	44
The Dobbs Decision: Can It Be Justified by Public Reason?	35
Adolescent OCD Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on Identity, Authenticity, and Normalcy in Potential Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment	31
Teaching Ethics Consultation Using a Tabletop Exercise	27
Public Reason Requirements in Bioethical Discourse	26
The Reasonable Content of Conscience in Public Bioethics	25
Learning to Live with Strange Error: Beyond Trustworthiness in Artificial Intelligence Ethics	22
Anything Goes? Analyzing Varied Understandings of Assent	20
The Virtues of Interpretable Medical Artificial Intelligence	20
Xenotransplantation Can Be Safe—A Reply	19
Seeing and Having Seen: On Suffering and Intersubjectivity	17
On the Ethics of Withholding and Withdrawing Unwarranted Diagnoses	16
Identifying Relevant Topics for Inclusion in an Ethics Curriculum for Anesthesiology Trainees: A Survey of Practitioners in the Field	15
A Critical Analysis of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the Consequences of Fetal Personhood	15
A Tale of Two Chimeras: Applying the Six Principles to Human Brain Organoid Xenotransplantation	15
The Moral Bindingness of Advance Directives	14
Exit Duty Generator	14
Naming and Describing Disability in Law and Medicine	12
Bioethics and Public Policy: Is There Hope for Public Reason?	11
Neurorights versus Externalism about Mental Content: Characterizing the ‘Harm’ of Neurotechnological Mind Reading	11
Wounds and Vulnerabilities. The Participation of Special Operations Forces in Experimental Brain–Computer Interface Research	10
Incidental Findings from Deep Phenotyping Research in Psychiatry: Legal and Ethical Considerations	10
Existential Suffering as a Legitimization of Euthanasia	10
On Matti Häyry’s “Exit Duty Generator”	10

How to Make Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Safer	10
Neurolaw—A Call to Action	9
Bioethics transformed: 40 years of the value of life	9
Organ Conscription and Greater Needs	9
Social Support: From Exclusion Criteria to Medical Service	9
Dreaming A Better World for Animals: A Review of David Peña-Guzmán’s When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness, 2022, 259 pp. ISBN 9780691220093.	9
Strategic Ambiguity: The Pragmatic Utopianism of Daniel Callahan’s “Bioethics as a Discipline”	9
When Is Something an Alternative? A General Account Applied to Animal-Free Alternatives to Animal Research	9
Physicians Controlling Women’s Reproductive Choices: The Slow Liberalization of Abortion Laws in Finland	8
Gratitude	8
Daring to Taste: A Review of Living as a Bird by Vinciane Despret	8
Developing Novel Tools for Bioethics Education: ACECS and the Visual Analytics Dashboard	8
The Wrong Motives for Potentially Harming a Being	8
Suffering and Intellectual (Dis)Ability	8
Ghost in the Machine	8
Germline Gene Editing: The Gender Issues	8
Invisible Victims and the Case for OTC SSRIs	8
Review of Dranove and Burns, 2021. Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America	8
Bioethics, Ukraine, and the Peril of Silence	7
Precision Medicine and Rough Justice: Wicked Problems	7
Cost-Effectiveness, Incompleteness, and Discrimination	7
Cognitive Enhancement as Transformative Experience: The Challenge of Wrapping One’s Mind Around Enhanced Cognition via Neurostimulation	7
Rethinking Animal Consciousness Research to Prioritize Well-Being	6
What Do Chimeras Think About?	6
More Process, Less Principles: The Ethics of Deploying AI and Robotics in Medicine	6
Placebo Effects: The Meaning of Care in Medicine by Pekka Louhiala	6
On the Legal Status of Human Cerebral Organoids: Lessons from Animal Law	6
Frailty as a Priority-Setting Criterion for Potentially Lifesaving Treatment—Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Circularity, and Indirect Discrimination?	6
Euthanasia for the Elderly: Multiple Geriatric Syndromes and Unbearable Suffering According to Dutch Euthanasia Review Committees	6
On the Justified Use of AI Decision Support in Evidence-Based Medicine: Validity, Explainability, and Responsibility	6
“Terminal Anorexia”, Treatment Refusal and Decision-Making Capacity	6
Human Brain Organoids: Why There Can Be Moral Concerns If They Grow Up in the Lab and Are Transplanted or Destroyed	6
How Populism Affects Bioethics	5
Human Antinatalism and the Limits of Bipolar Pessimism	5
A Balance of Rights: The Italian Way to the Abortion Controversy	5
Reconsidering Capacity to Appoint a Healthcare Proxy	5
The Value of the Patient Voice: A Review of Salt in My Soul by Mallory Smith	5
Case Vignettes in Transplant Psychiatry Ethics	5
Uterus Transplant: Bioethical and Biolegal Issues from Mexico	5
In Defense of “Physician-Assisted Suicide”: Toward (and Back to) a Transparent, Destigmatizing Debate	4
At a Moment of Electoral Equipoise: A Review of It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. New York: Signet Classics, 2014, 397 pp. ISBN 978-0-451-46564-1.	4
CQH volume 31 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
Ethical Issues Concerning Organ Donation	4
Leveraging a Sturdy Norm: How Ethicists Really Argue	4
Commentary on Rissfeldt: The Small Matter of the Doctor’s Autonomy	4
Ethical and Equitable Digital Health Research: Ensuring Self-Determination in Data Governance for Racialized Communities	4
Editorial: The Ethical Implications of Using AI in Medicine	4
Subject and Family Perspectives from the Central Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation Trial for Traumatic Brain Injury: Part II	4
QALYs, Disability Discrimination, and the Role of Adaptation in the Capacity to Recover: The Patient-Sensitive Health-Related Quality of Life Account	4
Objective Suffering: What is it? What Could it be?	4

Double Talk	4
Mobile Health in China: Well Integrated or a New Divide?	4